Was thinking this would be great for VR but I really fricking hate the toggling needed to be able to type anything other than letters on those.
And I tried it on a sofle which is way easier than Corne.
wtf is this?
looks like a mockery of older keyboards that were actually useful and had a ton of buttons for things like volume, brightness, etc.
minimalism can suck my dick.
The Sun Type 7 was the last keyboard with the unix variant. You can also grab a type 6 or a type 5, although you'll have to specifically search for the usb ones, since Sun used to also ship keybs with their own connectors.
It's good however
1. You definitely want the bluetooth model
2. Get a realforce tenkeyless R3 with American layout, not a hhkb. HHKBs are really annoying to use unless you've totally mastered them
Maybe I'm just getting old, I understand having a less wide keyboard can be convenient, but who the frick has a shortage of vertical desk space? Why would you leave out the very useful function key row?
I don't understand it either.
If you care about your computer keyboard your are most likely a power user of a computer or computer application which probably uses the function keys.
most likely a lot of these gays come from poor countries with little square footage like ruskies and pajeets. But truthfully, a lot of people are just crossdressers trying to be bougie and hipster as usual. I like keeping 100% of my keyboard. However, I do have a Keychron Q1 Pro only because it feels fricking nice to type on and I've yet to find anything better. For some reason, when a keyboard is smaller, it has a more tactile and precise feel to it. The steel plate probably is helping, too.
It made sense to get it back when I was strapped for vertical desk space as a student due to working mostly from a laptop and often in a lab away from home, but I haven't needed to use it since then so I ended up just getting a 96% instead.
>But where are the arrow keys?
you can see them right there too. i personally put mine on hjkl >Also the top row number keys aren't a substitution for a numpad.
you can have a numpad wherever you want.
The keyboard in OP's pic is still kind of moronic because it's a row stagger keyboard though. picrel is what i use, except I've added macros to the top right row. I also added a dedicated qwerty layer that i can toggle for gayming since remapping keys is annoying. the bottom layer is still half empty because i couldn't think of any other keys i needed. i could easily add a numpad layer as well which would essentailly be a numpad on one half and a macropad on the other half, but i don't think I'd actually use it.
I’ve used mine to work on some computers that are down which only have Bluetooth keyboards or something but otherwise no. If you want a nice keyboard get a real force with all the keys. The stupid function shit where you press function and use all the keys is just like whatever honestly it’s not that convenient.
>“You never have to lift your fingers from the keys”
Except you do
dunno, should be pretty good if my dactyl experience is anything to go by. If you can afford time investment, id probably try to switch from qwerty layout too since you've already took a plunge. If you are using vim bindings id look into https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku especially into symbols layers.
going to columnar from staggered already requires you to rebuild your muscle memory, might as well rebuild it to something more ergonomic.
2 months ago
Anonymous
is it truly more ergonomic tho? keyboard construction makes a lot of sense but I don't get how a different layout is really gonna be more ergonomic. more common keys are homerow I'm guessing?
i like being able to use any kb and having the common keys scattered seems like it would increase max typing speed, but idk
2 months ago
Anonymous
>more common keys are homerow I'm guessing?
this and bunch of other criteria. less lateral motions less same finger presses, higher inward roll frequences etc. You do you, its just a suggestion.
2 months ago
Anonymous
NTA but I have canary layout in my keymap (as a switchable default layer) but so far I just can't be assed to learn a new layout when I can already do like 120wpm in qwerty comfortably.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Its not about speed. Living in a home row and rolling often feels megacomfy.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Yea I get that much, but I'm using a split columnar stagger board so typing is already pretty comfortable. Mainly though I'm just too lazy to put in weeks (months?) of practice in order to be able to match my qwerty speed in a new layout.
2 months ago
Anonymous
well thanks for the suggestion
2 months ago
Anonymous
>going to columnar from staggered already requires you to rebuild your muscle memory
...not really. It only took me like a day, and that was only for a few keys being slightly off. Learning a new layout took WAY longer to be proficient. I could already touch type, though.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Depends on individual, i guess. Regular misses were very annoying to me and i just decided to do it from scratch. I did mention that this will require time investment.
Yes, it's the only external keyboard I've used that I enjoy typing on. The type-s is 100% worth the price, given you're not a redditor homosexual that needs a rgb goon machine with custom switches and caps because you're an adult toddler that needs to be pacified by colors and sounds.
I use it for work though, the PC I was given has the worst keyboard I've ever used on a laptop. I needed something with a low sound profile, bluetooth, small, and easy to pick up. I've used other keyboards in the past but none were nearly as nice in terms of quality and sound.
I'm probably gonna build a split keyboard in the future, but the HHKB just werks. People on here seethe because they are poor, the same way they used to get mad about people using macbooks before apple took a giant shit all over every laptop on the market.
>complains about fn key and layout
I enjoy small keyboards, I was considering a 40% at one point. The fn key is completely fine with me, it's slightly annoying but I enjoy it compared to the alternative of a larger keyboard. Layout is also fine, again if you're not autistic it's a great keyboard. It's a normie buy, again like buying a macbook.
Depends entirely on what you want of course, everyone is different. I started with the HHKB, but couldn't stand not having function keys and a numpad. Switched over to a full sized Realforce R2, but the length was a bit overboard and I never used nor do I even know what the hell the keys above the arrows on a normal full sized are even for. Picked up an FC980C, got a hasu controller to deal with programmability, and settled on that since. Also managed to pick up a nice Heavy-9 from Mechmarket on reddit, so I think I'm pretty set on the 1800 layout.
You will never be a native Japanese speaker. You have no handwriting, you have no childhood immersion, you have no glottal stops. You are a anglophonic man twisted by anime and flashcards into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection. All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your tutors are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your ghoulish accent behind closed doors. Japs are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of linguistic evolution have allowed Japs to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even JSLs who “pass” sound uncanny and unnatural to a Jap. Your syllable pronounciation is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk tutor home with you, they’ll turn tail and bolt the second they get a whiff of your diseased, incomprehensible handwriting.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake ohayo every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight. Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your roommates will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment of hearing you speak. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your christian birth name, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know an anglo is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably caucasian.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
I like Heinlein's view on teaching better, when one teaches two learn.
Also, I forgot to mention that I began studying Japanese because my favorite Japanese band played my city when I was 18 and I talked in broken Japanese to their guitar player and he was so chuffed it made me want to study even more, any time I see them they force me to have a full convo with them and they get mad if I speak English. I'd Google the interview where they express their positive views on foreigners speaking Japanese for you but I'm at work and I don't want you gnawing all the way through your desk in anger already.
Fun fact, English isn't even my first language and you mistook me for a Caucasian man already.
2 months ago
Anonymous
didn't read lol
2 months ago
Anonymous
Ambos sabemos que lo hiciste y que estás ingresando este enunciado a un traductor automático en estos momentos.
Yes if you're a handlet, I bought the noppoo choc mini, which about the same size and I had to return it because it was too small and got me a ms natural 4000 instead. Upgraded to an full keychron, but I think next time I'll drop the numpad.
My guess is either excessive amount of layers or not doing anything except browsing the web with a mouse. TKL is my favorite but anything smaller always comes with major sacrifices I'm not willing to accept.
Used to have a 60% keyboard but then I played GTAV and started learning Blender
Even in use cases where you're not forced to use a numpad it's just a much superior experience when you have to type a lot of numbers
keylets sure are missing out
it was even more so, the yen was much stronger in the mid-2000s by the time it was regarded as "legendary" so paying $500 USD for one wasn't unheard of.
There are various factors that play into this. The HHKB is extremely light, so it was meant to be portable and carried around, along with the compressed format on the keys that would allow you to do more with less movement. The board these days is essentially obsolete, not in the least of reasons, that people never take them anywhere and even put them into 6lb heavy grails. With the advent of programmable controllers, you can make any keyboard you want have the exact same keybinds as the HHKB if not something better entirely. Finally, the only advantage HHKB had an advantage over which is housings and plates being a single piece that the sliders go into, is offset by using housing gaskets from deskeys or unreal keyboards. Its still one of the only boards that offers genuine topre domes and springs or the PCB for it, so at least on that point you're stuck. There is some work into making open source topre style PCBs, and there is Niz, but the domes don't feel the same.
Anyhow, the boards continue to improve with the type-S and four system wireless tabbing, so they're futureproofing once the other great points it had become more common.
Its a bit like asking why the pentium II is so great, because its not as good as modern processors.
I often do calculations and inputting numbers outside of passwords I do with it too.
Full size boards just look better too, miss me with that 41% shit with homosexual shrunken keys.
Speaking as someone who actually owns one of these, yes it is worth the price. The layout is fine after a day or two of typing and can actually marginally improve efficiency with regular use. No, you won't miss the keys it lacks. A lot of functionality is masked behind the Fn key, and the locations they chose for said functionality is sane.
For anyone who says otherwise, it is quite literally a skill issue.
The mecha keyboard had lots of hype at first especially when we got swappable switches, now it's really boring since no one makes interesting keycaps. I thought that was the whole point to using cherry stemmed switches as I expected to see way more keycap improvements. We also have RGB keyboards all over the place and none of the interesting keycap color schemes are RGB shine through. The only options for that is black, white or pudding.
i bought one at an auction for cheaper than new, still not really with it.
plastic case, rattly keys, light, software is lagging behind (you get a couple dip switches to change some settings) and the thing is, no matter how much you cope, a membrane keyboard.
the layout is nice though u remapped my caps to ctrl on my board current board, which is an exploded 75% with aluminum case
Mechanical is shit. Every membrane I typed on was better than mechtranical.
I owned an anne pro II and it started quadruple typing in three years. Pure shit.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Membrane is shit. Every mechanical I typed on was better than membrane.
I owned an msi interceptor and it started getting stuck after 3 years. pure shit
If you pay money for something all of it's functions should be good. Backlight can be useful if you're somewhere dark
1 month ago
Anonymous
If you still need to look at your keyboard to find out where the keys are, you shouldn't be spending money on a high-end keyboard in the first place
1 month ago
Anonymous
>it's not real if I don't look at it
keka
1 month ago
Anonymous
What the frick are you talking about? If you can't touch type then you shouldn't be allowed to use anything other than a laptop keyboard or an office keyboard, let alone posting on this board. I never need to look at my keyboard unless I need to press a rarely-used key. Go frick yourself.
1 month ago
Anonymous
>t. bought something that looks like dogshit and is now seething >Go frick yourself.
being mad means you lose
idk pham, that very much looks like a keyboard israelites would build and sell to the stupid goyim just to trick them into using them something really moronic
Where do so many low IQ posters like you come from?
HHKB was invented by a Japanese computer PhD and the layout is ergonomic and meant for UNIX hackers. They are still manufactured in Japan to this day, and are pretty much the highest quality premade keyboard you can buy.
No
Split keyboard might be 10x better
>might
Good luck using these handlet boosters on your lap or away from the table.
split gang stays strapped
Was thinking this would be great for VR but I really fricking hate the toggling needed to be able to type anything other than letters on those.
And I tried it on a sofle which is way easier than Corne.
do you also look at speakers and think "good luck using those as headphones when away from your desktop"?
Speakers are more portable than headphones moron
wtf is this?
looks like a mockery of older keyboards that were actually useful and had a ton of buttons for things like volume, brightness, etc.
minimalism can suck my dick.
if you have an access to a 3d printer or any good set of tools you can have infinitely better keyboard for fraction of a cost.
At least post one of my newer builds bro.
gray on blue looked better, man. Much comfier than black on white with gamer red switches.
Well it's not like I don't also have lots of other color options, along with the same grey as that ancient dactyl.
I had one in 2016. I ended up using an old membrane keyboard again and selling the HHKB for what I paid.
Nah, definitely not. Get a Sun keyboard if you like the layout. Paying that much and missing keys makes no sense.
>Sun keyboard
Can you post model name or pic?
The Sun Type 7 was the last keyboard with the unix variant. You can also grab a type 6 or a type 5, although you'll have to specifically search for the usb ones, since Sun used to also ship keybs with their own connectors.
>dog shit layout
>incredibly overpriced for very average aesthetics
>shit on by absolute pleb tier kb's like keychrons
the placement of the ctrl key seems more ergonomic than having to contort your pinkie to hit it on a regular layout.
Depends. Are you poor?
the white one with labels on keys is for the gays
the black one where you can't tell what anything does is for krad hax0rs
It's good however
1. You definitely want the bluetooth model
2. Get a realforce tenkeyless R3 with American layout, not a hhkb. HHKBs are really annoying to use unless you've totally mastered them
i love mine. but no
It's worth it if you're a moron
>no rotary knob
into the trash it goes
Yes. If you're employed.
this is the male equivalent of buying purses
nah men buy actual purses now, this is the male equivalent of scrapbooking and bullet journaling.
no one sees your keyboard
thats why we see so many kb gens and battlestation threads
>not bringing your expensive as frick mechanical keyboard with cherry mx blues to the office
My wife's grandmother collected typewriters, and had tons of books on secretary work, typing, and as
mentioned, scrapbooking and journaling.
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No. It's missing so many buttons. Even if it costs 10 bucks it's too expensive
rainy 75 or cidoo v65 are better and less expensive
Maybe I'm just getting old, I understand having a less wide keyboard can be convenient, but who the frick has a shortage of vertical desk space? Why would you leave out the very useful function key row?
I don't understand it either.
If you care about your computer keyboard your are most likely a power user of a computer or computer application which probably uses the function keys.
most likely a lot of these gays come from poor countries with little square footage like ruskies and pajeets. But truthfully, a lot of people are just crossdressers trying to be bougie and hipster as usual. I like keeping 100% of my keyboard. However, I do have a Keychron Q1 Pro only because it feels fricking nice to type on and I've yet to find anything better. For some reason, when a keyboard is smaller, it has a more tactile and precise feel to it. The steel plate probably is helping, too.
why are zoomers obsessed with removing keys
It made sense to get it back when I was strapped for vertical desk space as a student due to working mostly from a laptop and often in a lab away from home, but I haven't needed to use it since then so I ended up just getting a 96% instead.
>also you can see the function keys right there
But where are the arrow keys? Also the top row number keys aren't a substitution for a numpad.
>But where are the arrow keys?
you can see them right there too. i personally put mine on hjkl
>Also the top row number keys aren't a substitution for a numpad.
you can have a numpad wherever you want.
The keyboard in OP's pic is still kind of moronic because it's a row stagger keyboard though. picrel is what i use, except I've added macros to the top right row. I also added a dedicated qwerty layer that i can toggle for gayming since remapping keys is annoying. the bottom layer is still half empty because i couldn't think of any other keys i needed. i could easily add a numpad layer as well which would essentailly be a numpad on one half and a macropad on the other half, but i don't think I'd actually use it.
it was for me
it might have been worth it in the past
now, you can just learn to solder and build a lily58, iris or sofle for cheaper
Any low profile 100 keyboards other than keychron?
>no ergonomic keyboard
I’ve used mine to work on some computers that are down which only have Bluetooth keyboards or something but otherwise no. If you want a nice keyboard get a real force with all the keys. The stupid function shit where you press function and use all the keys is just like whatever honestly it’s not that convenient.
>“You never have to lift your fingers from the keys”
Except you do
there are keyboards that cost less than 50$ that are better build than this pice of shit
nice keys tho
>there are keyboards that cost less than 50$ that are better build than this pice of shit
Name one.
just ordered a Glove80
what am I in for bros?
dunno, should be pretty good if my dactyl experience is anything to go by. If you can afford time investment, id probably try to switch from qwerty layout too since you've already took a plunge. If you are using vim bindings id look into https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku especially into symbols layers.
>id probably try to switch from qwerty layout
why?
>If you are using vim bindings
i do. I will check that out, thanks
going to columnar from staggered already requires you to rebuild your muscle memory, might as well rebuild it to something more ergonomic.
is it truly more ergonomic tho? keyboard construction makes a lot of sense but I don't get how a different layout is really gonna be more ergonomic. more common keys are homerow I'm guessing?
i like being able to use any kb and having the common keys scattered seems like it would increase max typing speed, but idk
>more common keys are homerow I'm guessing?
this and bunch of other criteria. less lateral motions less same finger presses, higher inward roll frequences etc. You do you, its just a suggestion.
NTA but I have canary layout in my keymap (as a switchable default layer) but so far I just can't be assed to learn a new layout when I can already do like 120wpm in qwerty comfortably.
Its not about speed. Living in a home row and rolling often feels megacomfy.
Yea I get that much, but I'm using a split columnar stagger board so typing is already pretty comfortable. Mainly though I'm just too lazy to put in weeks (months?) of practice in order to be able to match my qwerty speed in a new layout.
well thanks for the suggestion
>going to columnar from staggered already requires you to rebuild your muscle memory
...not really. It only took me like a day, and that was only for a few keys being slightly off. Learning a new layout took WAY longer to be proficient. I could already touch type, though.
Depends on individual, i guess. Regular misses were very annoying to me and i just decided to do it from scratch. I did mention that this will require time investment.
>tenkeyless
no thank u
>Doesn't post price
Anon is this bait?
Because if not, why are you like this?
Yes, it's the only external keyboard I've used that I enjoy typing on. The type-s is 100% worth the price, given you're not a redditor homosexual that needs a rgb goon machine with custom switches and caps because you're an adult toddler that needs to be pacified by colors and sounds.
I use it for work though, the PC I was given has the worst keyboard I've ever used on a laptop. I needed something with a low sound profile, bluetooth, small, and easy to pick up. I've used other keyboards in the past but none were nearly as nice in terms of quality and sound.
I'm probably gonna build a split keyboard in the future, but the HHKB just werks. People on here seethe because they are poor, the same way they used to get mad about people using macbooks before apple took a giant shit all over every laptop on the market.
>complains about fn key and layout
I enjoy small keyboards, I was considering a 40% at one point. The fn key is completely fine with me, it's slightly annoying but I enjoy it compared to the alternative of a larger keyboard. Layout is also fine, again if you're not autistic it's a great keyboard. It's a normie buy, again like buying a macbook.
>I was considering a 40%
Consider a 41% keyboard.
kek, i read this around the time it was posted and didn't get it till now. good one fren
Depends entirely on what you want of course, everyone is different. I started with the HHKB, but couldn't stand not having function keys and a numpad. Switched over to a full sized Realforce R2, but the length was a bit overboard and I never used nor do I even know what the hell the keys above the arrows on a normal full sized are even for. Picked up an FC980C, got a hasu controller to deal with programmability, and settled on that since. Also managed to pick up a nice Heavy-9 from Mechmarket on reddit, so I think I'm pretty set on the 1800 layout.
>no numpad
>no function keys
Useless for real programming. So you use VScode with the Vim extension? Transcoded
Excel is not "real programming".
Worth every penny
what do you think of my keyboard!!
Has a numpad and function keys. That makes it good. Congratulations, you are straight
>poser japanese keycaps
No
おまえみたいな西洋豚じゃないよ。日本語できる。(草)
でもお前はまだゲイだよ
うわ、このオカマは翻訳機が使えるのに。(草)
翻訳アプリ使いませんよ
俺の日本語がへたくそけどw
あ、そうか。大丈夫無名さん、僕も日本語うまくないwww。
I'm on the lookout for something like that, preferably without an Fn key and no goddamn LEDs.
You will never be a native Japanese speaker. You have no handwriting, you have no childhood immersion, you have no glottal stops. You are a anglophonic man twisted by anime and flashcards into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection. All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your tutors are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your ghoulish accent behind closed doors. Japs are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of linguistic evolution have allowed Japs to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even JSLs who “pass” sound uncanny and unnatural to a Jap. Your syllable pronounciation is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk tutor home with you, they’ll turn tail and bolt the second they get a whiff of your diseased, incomprehensible handwriting.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake ohayo every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight. Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your roommates will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment of hearing you speak. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your christian birth name, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know an anglo is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably caucasian.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
ワロタ
>Your tutors are disgusted and ashamed of you
So much so in fact they personally asked me to join the faculty at the school I learned at, huh.
those who can't, teach
I like Heinlein's view on teaching better, when one teaches two learn.
Also, I forgot to mention that I began studying Japanese because my favorite Japanese band played my city when I was 18 and I talked in broken Japanese to their guitar player and he was so chuffed it made me want to study even more, any time I see them they force me to have a full convo with them and they get mad if I speak English. I'd Google the interview where they express their positive views on foreigners speaking Japanese for you but I'm at work and I don't want you gnawing all the way through your desk in anger already.
Fun fact, English isn't even my first language and you mistook me for a Caucasian man already.
didn't read lol
Ambos sabemos que lo hiciste y que estás ingresando este enunciado a un traductor automático en estos momentos.
do you want it? then yes. i guess.
i thought this was american image board
What it meant to be an American has changed.
Get the JP version it has more keys. Also order or build a programmable third-party controller like TMK.
that is one small ass space bar
They only reason I see to ever need a huge spacebar is if I was trying to press it with my dick.
you're only spending in excess of 30 bucks on a kb if you're invested in the novelty aspect of customisation.
Yes if you're a handlet, I bought the noppoo choc mini, which about the same size and I had to return it because it was too small and got me a ms natural 4000 instead. Upgraded to an full keychron, but I think next time I'll drop the numpad.
>Yes if you're a handlet
Nonsense, the keys on a HHKB are all full sized.
How do people use anything less than a TKL?
It's like you don't actually play games or do anything useful with your computer.
My guess is either excessive amount of layers or not doing anything except browsing the web with a mouse. TKL is my favorite but anything smaller always comes with major sacrifices I'm not willing to accept.
Used to have a 60% keyboard but then I played GTAV and started learning Blender
Even in use cases where you're not forced to use a numpad it's just a much superior experience when you have to type a lot of numbers
keylets sure are missing out
I have literally never felt the need for anything larger than 60% for my entire career.
For old gaymen, however, a full size keyboard with a numpad is better.
>professional
>thing no professional would use
It was definitely used by professionals in the mid-90s when HHKB reached it's peak.
Was the price as ridiculous back then too?
>captcha: G4GAY
it was even more so, the yen was much stronger in the mid-2000s by the time it was regarded as "legendary" so paying $500 USD for one wasn't unheard of.
There are various factors that play into this. The HHKB is extremely light, so it was meant to be portable and carried around, along with the compressed format on the keys that would allow you to do more with less movement. The board these days is essentially obsolete, not in the least of reasons, that people never take them anywhere and even put them into 6lb heavy grails. With the advent of programmable controllers, you can make any keyboard you want have the exact same keybinds as the HHKB if not something better entirely. Finally, the only advantage HHKB had an advantage over which is housings and plates being a single piece that the sliders go into, is offset by using housing gaskets from deskeys or unreal keyboards. Its still one of the only boards that offers genuine topre domes and springs or the PCB for it, so at least on that point you're stuck. There is some work into making open source topre style PCBs, and there is Niz, but the domes don't feel the same.
Anyhow, the boards continue to improve with the type-S and four system wireless tabbing, so they're futureproofing once the other great points it had become more common.
Its a bit like asking why the pentium II is so great, because its not as good as modern processors.
What a midwit blockpost.
>delete rather than backspace
why does IQfy have such moronic opinions on keyboards. why do you need a numpad. are you a wage slave accountant? no? then you dont need a numpad
I'm a translator and the language that I translate into uses special characters that require alt + num keys.
What language? Surely there has to be a better way than alt codes.
I often do calculations and inputting numbers outside of passwords I do with it too.
Full size boards just look better too, miss me with that 41% shit with homosexual shrunken keys.
how much do HHKBs cost these days? i got mine for like 110 yuros tax free from nippon in 2015.
you could probably get it cheaper importing from japan because of the weak yen, but yes they're still an expensive meme
Are they anything special?
How do they compare to an old G15 for example?
It's good for Emacs (inb4 xah website)
Is it worth the price?
Soul pledged to darkness
Now i've lost it, I know i can kill
The truth exists beyond the gate
love my fc660c
Speaking as someone who actually owns one of these, yes it is worth the price. The layout is fine after a day or two of typing and can actually marginally improve efficiency with regular use. No, you won't miss the keys it lacks. A lot of functionality is masked behind the Fn key, and the locations they chose for said functionality is sane.
For anyone who says otherwise, it is quite literally a skill issue.
Well?
Disgusting
why do you need a tiny keyboard? is there not enough space on your desk? maybe move your piss bottles to the floor
Why do you need a massive keyboard with keys you don't need?
These keyboards only cost your heterosexuality.
>no nav keys
>no function row
gross junk
That's on purpose
Let me guess, you need more?
60%s aren't worth it. They're inconvenient when trying to use keyboard shortcuts in the OS and in programs normally. You want a numkeyless.
They're worth it for people that don't use F keys which is most people
80% are the most one can argue for especially in smaller size keyboards if one wants a cheap set up.
Arrow keys and the function keys are important, numpad not so much unless you play roguelikes.
The mecha keyboard had lots of hype at first especially when we got swappable switches, now it's really boring since no one makes interesting keycaps. I thought that was the whole point to using cherry stemmed switches as I expected to see way more keycap improvements. We also have RGB keyboards all over the place and none of the interesting keycap color schemes are RGB shine through. The only options for that is black, white or pudding.
Been using this now for ~20 years. Idk if its worth the price, got it for free as they replaced stuff in my local tech store
dude, is that a dell?
thats just some stock image, my keyboard is actually Dell
I'm so jelly
>need finger gymnastics to press ctrl+alt+<key>
Into the trash it goes.
i bought one at an auction for cheaper than new, still not really with it.
plastic case, rattly keys, light, software is lagging behind (you get a couple dip switches to change some settings) and the thing is, no matter how much you cope, a membrane keyboard.
the layout is nice though u remapped my caps to ctrl on my board current board, which is an exploded 75% with aluminum case
>membrane keyboard
brainrot detected
membrane is superior zoomie
always has been
why do you think being a contrarian is cool? do you think it makes you original?
Mechanical is shit. Every membrane I typed on was better than mechtranical.
I owned an anne pro II and it started quadruple typing in three years. Pure shit.
Membrane is shit. Every mechanical I typed on was better than membrane.
I owned an msi interceptor and it started getting stuck after 3 years. pure shit
No, but the Lofree Flow ($160) is
looks good, got a mini review for us?
Looks gud
Feels gud
Sounds gud
idk what else you want
>Lofree Flow
He didn't tell you that the backlight looks like absolute dogshit
>needing a backlight on your keyboard at all
If you pay money for something all of it's functions should be good. Backlight can be useful if you're somewhere dark
If you still need to look at your keyboard to find out where the keys are, you shouldn't be spending money on a high-end keyboard in the first place
>it's not real if I don't look at it
keka
What the frick are you talking about? If you can't touch type then you shouldn't be allowed to use anything other than a laptop keyboard or an office keyboard, let alone posting on this board. I never need to look at my keyboard unless I need to press a rarely-used key. Go frick yourself.
>t. bought something that looks like dogshit and is now seething
>Go frick yourself.
being mad means you lose
I use this at work. I like it. I would encourage someone to spend that much unless they’re bad with money like me
It's definitely overpriced, but it's still a great keyboard. I own both the silenced and unsilenced versions.
It's an overpriced piece of shit:
idk pham, that very much looks like a keyboard israelites would build and sell to the stupid goyim just to trick them into using them something really moronic
Where do so many low IQ posters like you come from?
HHKB was invented by a Japanese computer PhD and the layout is ergonomic and meant for UNIX hackers. They are still manufactured in Japan to this day, and are pretty much the highest quality premade keyboard you can buy.
Did the PhD guy design the Western layout too? The Japanese layout actually has arrow keys.
NO